Joyce Lieberman is the Radio Engineering Supervisor at WHYY-FM the local NPR Radio Station. She works to ensure high-quality sound over the air and on the web, maintain audio equipment and digital systems, train personnel for production and broadcast of programs, including Fresh Air, and trouble-shoot problems. 

Joyce began at WHYY as a volunteer in 1973 with a program called “Learning to Fly” produced by “Radio Free Women”. She was hired by WHYY TV and Radio as a trainee in 1976 under a Minority Training Grant from The Corporation for Public Broadcasting and began work in radio with mostly classical music. “Fresh Air with Terry Gross” was a three hour, local, interview program which began in 1976, and Joyce took over engineering the show in 1977.

When Fresh Air became a national NPR program in 1987, Joyce became the Technical Director. She worked with a crew to research equipment and workflows for producing high-quality radio for a national audience, including recording many musical guests live in our studio.

Joyce has a BA from Rutgers University and attended Philadelphia Wireless Technical Institute for basic electronic theory and audio training. Joyce’s professional recording efforts include over thirty years of recording music for the Cape May Music Festival and the Philadelphia Folk Festival. She does audio mixing for the Andrea Clearfield Salon in Philadelphia.

Joyce helped oversee the transition for Fresh Air to digital editing and the Fresh Air Digital Archive. Joyce is a Life Member of the Audio Engineering Society (AES) and is the Co-Chair of the Philadelphia AES Chapter, and she is a participant in the National Association of Broadcasting (NAB) events. She holds a Radio Broadcast General Class license.

Joyce Lieberman,
Radio Engineering Supervisor
Fresh Air/NPR
WHYY
Philadelphia, PA 19119
joycel@whyy.org
rejoice34@gmail.com